Hello,
I am looking a solution how to pass tagged traffic from the switch for some external processing and let it go back into the same switch for further switching.
To emulate:
SWITCH1 ->external-device(bridge)-> SWITCH2
In one unit:
SWITCH->external-device(bridge)->back to the same SWITCH
I prefer to use the one switch because of power, space and budget reasons. Of course I understand that it will process each packet twice and the system load would be doubled.
For untagged traffic, the solution would be simple: just setup two VLANs.
However, my traffic is tagged. Is there any solution for EX4550?
Something like instance-type virtual-switch? Maybe private VLANs? QinQ maybe?
Thank you for any tips.